By a 6-3 vote, the court said defendants can be prevented from
using assets frozen by a pretrial order for their legal defense
without a court hearing on the matter.

The case before the court concerned Kerri Kaley, a sales
representative for a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson Inc who,
along with her husband Brian, was indicted by federal prosecutors
in Florida for reselling medical devices, including sutures, that
she obtained from hospitals to which she had previously sold the
same products.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller)

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